[CaptainCrunch]

I thought I would start this up, especially after watching the two episodes and really liking it a lot.

Some of you know, I like writing things about series that really grab me. Agents of Shield, Battlestar Galactica, etc. This one caught me because off of the start its so different and unique. I've placed this in spoilers because there's some speculation in here.

Spoiler!

The first one was played as a straight 60's style sitcom, and it was brilliant in its execution, right down to the acting style of Wanda and her new neighbor Agnes. When you watch Wanda and her talking with the exaggerated style of acting that used to happen in those old shows you can't help but laugh.

There's a wicked sense of humor in this show when it comes to the source material. Vision works at a huge company, that nobody knows what it does, and Vision questions that. But it brings back the old shows where the husband would go to work at some anonymous monster company and sit around having conversations all day. But I started to wonder if this company has a more sinister agenda, just based on the fact that its a computational company.

Meanwhile Wanda bonds with her new neighbor in a delicious traditional woman's role rift from that era. By the way Elizabeth Olson is adorable in this role, as is Katherine Hahn.

The plot circles around to the typical chaos ensues dinner when the boss and his wife are bought over and Vision's future depends on it (Another typical 60's sitcom rift) But the show takes a hard turn to the mystery at hand, when Vision and Wanda can't remember their backstory and the boss starts choking and the boss' wife starts repeating over and over again for him to stop it, until Vision saves his life and gets his promotion.


Then we go to the typical sitcom credits but its interrupted by a mysterious figure watching them from a color universe.

I would also be remiss if I didn't mention the ad for the Stark toaster, for a minor insertion it created incredible tension as you almost expected it to explode when the toast was done.

The first episode was charming and funny and well written and acted. But outside of the end sequence and the choking sequence, it was mainly there to establish that they were trapped in an environment, but weren't aware of it.

At the same time you have to ask the question of how Vision was even there after being destroyed in Infinity War in a final death.

Episode two starts ramping up the mystery. Vision and Wanda are preparing to participate in a magic show for a fundraiser for the children . . . of the elementary school, however the first thing that I noticed, there are no children . . . but more on that later.

We go through the preparations as Wanda takes part in the planning committee run by the domineering Dottie, meanwhile Vision takes part in meeting of the neighborhood watch and has his first experience with gum which jams up his works and makes him basically drunk.

Its important to note that things have started to shift in this reality. Wanda finds a toy helicopter with a Sword Logo on it that's in color. Dottie cuts her hand and bleeds red blood. We get that creepy chant that they're doing this for the Children, and its repeated several times. Also we hear the song help me Wanda coming from a radio with a voice asking "Wanda who's doing this to her"

The magic act was hilarious and well done, Vision uses his real powers and Wanda covers for him brilliantly, and they win the inaugural comedy act of the year, which was another piece of strangeness.

After the show Wanda and Vision return home to celebrate and we see a pregnant Wanda, and then hear a banging outside, and see a mystery figure coming out of a manhole in a bee keepers suit with another Sword logo surrounded by bees. We then see that Wanda can control her environment in the show as she forcefully yells "No" and rewinds to the pregnancy reveal followed by the set going full color as well as the characters.

We also got another amazing commercial for a hydra watch with the name Strucker a name that is prominent with Hydra, also we have the same actors from the toaster commercial.

So the question remains. what the hell is going on? The early speculation is that Wanda is in some kind of mind prison or experiment, and the flaws in the environment, like the radio, and the color, and the helicopter etc are being caused by efforts to break them out. While Hydra is effectively defeated the Strucker name is prominent because he's the man that created Scarlett Witch and her brother. Also its easy to say that the Vision not eating is due to him being synthetic, it could also be a nod to him being dead and this might not be the real Vision.

Other speculation, Agnes is more then what she seems. In the MCU comics there was a character named Agatha Harkness. Link, maybe.

Its maybe too simple of a speculation that Wanda's in a prison, but its clear that someone is doing something to her to put her in this sitcom and that there is a war happening for her consciousness.

Other thoughts

Emma Caulfield who played Anya in Buffy was great, also Anya had a great fear of Bunnies, and we had a bunny in this episode. Maybe its random, but it struck me.

When Wanda switches to color she's wearing red like her Scarlett Wich persona.

I read that one of the lamps was in the shape of Whizzer Wanda's father in the comic books.

Loved the Bewitched style intro in the second episode, I wonder if they're going to riff on other sitcoms from that era.

In the scene where Dottie cuts herself she tells Wanda she knows everything about her, then after cutting herself seems to forget it and has a look of panic on her face. Maybe Wanda's not the only real character trapped in the sitcom universe?